This article provides the results of a statistical analysis of factors affecting the probability of establishment of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the region, with the use of probit regression. The obtained empirical results indicate that SEZs were established in regions with a high share of industry in employment, with a high rate of unemployment, and at the same time a fast increase in the number of employed persons. This is a confirmation of theses according to which SEZs have become an instrument of provisional restructuring of industry in regions particularly badly affected by unemployment at the start of systemic transition, instead of being a component of a regional policy aimed at providing foundations for a long-term development of economically underdeveloped regions, in accordance with the European Union and World Trade Organisation principles.
This paper studies the ex-post trade efects of China's multilateral, regional and bilateral trade liberalization using augmented gravity and panel data estimation methods for the period 1995-2016. China's accession to the WTO was revealed to have had a significant impact on the volume of trade as well as on bilateral exports and imports. Regional trade agreements and the majority of bilateral trade agreements were found not to be efective in increasing China's foreign trade. Only the agreements with Chile, Costa Rica and Switzerland were efective in increasing China's trade volume. Moreover, the results for Chile were driven by increases in both exports and imports, while for Costa Rica and Switzerland only by increased imports from these countries.
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